Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-03-04

DEERFIEIo VALLEY CREAMERY COMPANY :
ANNUAL REPORT.

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The auditors report Of the Deeriirld Val
ley Creamery company for the year ending
Feb. !. lSS;. shows that there have been
gathered !W, 0iO gauge, of cream Cooley
canD from which were made I .3Hl pounds
Of butter, besidcs selling 81 gallons of cream
For nine months of the year the patrons
have averaged to receive 20 cents "a pound
for their butter for the other three months
there is still some butter ON hand and in the
hands of agents So that no report can be
given on the price. The company have
during the year employed two men to col
lect the cream, paying each 81 - per day.
They pay their buttcr-maker so Il month.
The total running expenses, including in
terest ON the capital stock and one-fuurth
of cent pound ON all butter made re
served towards paying the Indebtedness,
was 30 cents pound. The huttermilk,
sold at one cent gallon, amounted to $l3i.
81. The company had the milk from 80
COWS. The upper story of the creamery
building has been finished off for tenement
for the butter maker They have also put
in cold storage room capable of holding
10000 pounds of butter, built on the latest
approved plans under Jackson's patent of
Chicago
At the annual meeting held Feb. 22d G..
G.. Haynes, II Adams, f. Titus, q. \. Boyd
and W. \. Harris were chosen directors I;
f.. NJ. Haynes and r.. Il. Buifum, auditors
1t w,rs voted 10 employ superintendent for
the coming year. The universal feeling
among the patrons is that the creamery is
proving itself to be- u success, and they are
looking for Il much larger patronage for the
year to come Wherever the butter has
been used it has given perfect satisfaction,
and dealers say that when once they get u
customer to use it they ask for no other A
sample sent to the Bay State fair, although
it was made during the drouth in Septem-
| her when the paSturage was the dryest il
was ever known tn Ice, was rated 93 ont of
a possible 100 points
There will he IA covenant meeting at the
Baptist church ON Saturday at . T.. NJ the
following day being communion Sunday.
| Henry Bugbee is visiting in town.
Miss Minnie Ripley has returned from
/ New York
Miss Carrie Winslow of Brattleboro spent
/ II few days in town lately.
Mr.. and Mrs c. l. Wolcott have been in
South Londonderry for the past week.
.. O. Ware i, in New York
Pumner Prouty has hen that has laid
continuously over 90 eggs, the last of which
weighed 81 ounces and measured 81 10y -
inches.
At the W c. 7. L. paror meeting held
with Mrs. Dr. Rice on Wednesday evening
large number of invited guests were pres
ent, besides members of the union. The
evening was passed very pleasantly with
literary exercises and music.
G. y. x VI. +. Spencer find by reference
to their hooks that they have bought of the
farmers in this section IN the year between
March !. 1856 and March /, 1887, Is, III
gallons of maple syrup. OF this amount
f f. Ray has converted nearly 1000 gal
IONS into sugar since Jan list. The average
price paid for the syrup was ~ cents pen
gallon. making the total amount paid the
farmers Of the section 10y this firm alon,
/ over SS1OO